NVO Grade 10 Bulgarian study plan

Identify the main theme, secondary themes, and narrative point of view in three short Bulgarian literary excerpts (prose, lyric poetry, drama) and justify each identification with two textual citations

Distinguish between metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole in twenty lines of poetry, labeling each device and explaining its effect in one sentence

Annotate a 400-word literary passage for plot structure (exposition, complication, climax, resolution) and character motivation

Define in your own words ten core literary-theory terms (theme, motif, conflict, narrator, lyrical subject, composition, artistic image, subtext, pathos, chronotope) with one example each

Compare two literary texts of different genres and write a structured comparison of their themes, imagery, and compositional structure

Trace how a single motif (e.g., home, road, memory) develops across a poem and a prose fragment, citing line-level evidence

Analyze the function of tropes and figures (epithet, antithesis, rhetorical question, anaphora, gradation) in a lyric poem and explain how they build tone

Practice timed literary comprehension: complete two 20-minute passage-and-questions sets and review every wrong answer against the text

Map the structure of three non-literary texts (news article, essay, official document) by locating thesis, supporting arguments, and conclusion in an outline

Distinguish fact from opinion and identify the author's purpose and intended audience in five short non-literary passages

Classify ten lexical groups (synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms, archaisms, neologisms, dialectisms, terms, colloquialisms, borrowings) using examples drawn from the week's readings

Explain the stylistic register (neutral, colloquial, scientific, publicistic, official) of four excerpts and justify each classification with two linguistic features

Transcribe the Bulgarian sound system: classify vowels and consonants by articulation, state the rules of vowel reduction and consonant voicing/devoicing, and apply them to 25 words

Apply the rules for writing я/е, ъ/а after prefixes and in word roots, and the 9/10-vowel spelling rule to correct 40 deliberately faulty spellings

Punctuate 20 sentences correctly, covering comma before subordinate clauses, dashes, quotation marks in direct speech, and colon in enumeration

Parse 25 word forms morphologically (part of speech, gender, number, definiteness, tense, person) and identify the syntactic function of each in its sentence

Analyze the structure of simple and complex sentences in 15 examples, labeling subject, predicate, object, adverbial, and attribute, and naming the type of subordinate clause

Convert 10 sentences between active and passive voice and between direct and indirect speech, preserving punctuation

Identify and correct 15 common syntactic errors (redundancy, wrong preposition, agreement failures, misplaced modifiers) and explain each correction

Review the week-4 spelling and punctuation errors and re-test yourself on 30 new items until you score at least 90 percent

Build a timeline of Bulgarian literary periods from the National Revival through modernism, noting two representative authors and one landmark work per period

Explain the historical and cultural conditions that shaped at least three periods and connect them to specific stylistic features in a text

Match ten phraseological expressions to their meanings and use five of them in original sentences that reveal their stylistic coloring

Identify the stylistic effect of phraseologisms, dialectisms, and archaisms in two literary excerpts and explain how they characterize the speaker or setting

Draft an interpretive essay of 350 to 400 words on a short literary text, stating a thesis, supporting it with three textual arguments, and concluding without mere repetition

Draft an argumentative text of 300 to 350 words on a debatable statement, using a clear claim, two supporting arguments with evidence, and one refutation of a counterargument

Revise both drafts against a checklist: thesis clarity, paragraph unity, cohesion devices, register consistency, spelling and punctuation

Self-assess both texts with an exam-style rubric and rewrite the weakest paragraph of each

Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them by domain to identify remaining weak areas

Re-teach the three lowest-scoring domains using condensed notes and targeted practice sets of 15 items each

Review all personal error logs from weeks 1 to 7 and rewrite the 20 most persistent mistakes as corrected rules

Rehearse the writing task once more in 40 minutes to confirm time management and structural control